Colin Post
From IFWiki
Colin C. Post is a researcher in library and information science, and poet. He is an Assistant Professor in Information, Library, and Research Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (USA). He has a particular interest in cataloguing and preservation of narrative games.
Author Credits
- distinctions (2023; Twine).
Review and Article Credits
Selected publications
- A Colossal Catalog Adventure: Representing Indie Video Games and Game Creators in Library Catalogs (15-Nov-2023; with Tiffany Henry, Katherine Nunnally, Chloe Lanham; Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, vol 61); doi:10.1080/01639374.2023.2280207; a study of cataloging Choice of Games works.
Organizational Credits
- Collecting Narrative Games in Libraries Open Discussion (2023) -- focus groups inviting perspective from game makers (see also the NarraScope 2023 talk below).
Other Credits
- Talks:
- My (Mostly) Frustrated Efforts to Collect Narrative Games in an Academic Library (video; slides), NarraScope, 31-Jul-2022.
- Cataloging Narrative Games to Expand the Bibliographic Universe (video; slides), NarraScope, 10-Jun-2023.
- Interactive Fiction in the Library (with Brendan Desilets) (slides), NarraScope, 22-Jun-2024.
- Let's Keep Talking About Collecting Narrative Games in Libraries (slides), NarraScope, 23-Jun-2024.
Links
- Homepage.
- University of North Carolina Greensboro page.
- Digital Games in Libraries (DGIL), a research project for which Post is the Principal Investigator.
- Colin Post - at IFDB.